Thursday, 17 December 2009

Defending Palestinian Food Sovereignty against Occupation and Expulsion -

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- December 15, 2009

Falamieh
Falamieh Village (top) lush agricultural land (bottom) same land shaved to erect part of Israel’s Apartheid Wall

PHOTO courtesy of ARIJ 29Dec02

Palestinian grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign  -  www.stopthewall.org

Food sovereignty is the right of peoples to define their own food and agriculture; to protect and regulate domestic agricultural production and trade in order to achieve sustainable development objectives; to determine the extent to which they want to be self reliant; to restrict the dumping of products in their markets; and to provide local fisheriesbased communities the priority in managing the use of and the rights to aquatic resources.

Food sovereignty does not negate trade, but rather, it promotes the formulation of trade policies and practices that serve the rights of peoples to safe, healthy and ecologically sustainable production.”
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